KOMPAS.com – Cheetah is the fastest animal on land with very high acceleration. While kuda is a mainstay animal of humans that is known to be fast and and very strong.
What is the difference from cheetah and horses so much more agile than other animals?
What makes cheetahs agile are their bones, muscles, claws and tail, which can exert great repulsion without losing balance.
As for what makes a horse agile is the structure of the bones, muscles, organs of the lungs and heart, as well as the nails.
Cheetah, the Fastest High Acceleration Land Animal
Acceleration is the ability to increase speed from zero (rest) to a certain point. Reporting from National Geographic Society Newsroom, the cheetah can reach a speed of 69.5 mph in just three seconds which means the cheetah accelerates faster than the Ferrari Enzo car which took 3.3 to reach 60 mph.
From a stationary position while lurking, cheetahs can suddenly shoot like bullets at their prey. The cheetah has a slender body, flat ribs, a small skull, long stable legs that provide high aerodynamics.
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Reporting from BBC Wildlife MagazineThe cheetah’s spine is elastic and flexible thus increasing the length of its stride. The cheetah’s claws are very strong to grip the ground and provide a great initial repulsion to accelerate.
The cheetah has a long tail and helps to balance its body in very agile maneuvers. Allows the cheetah to turn at high speed without falling. Cheetahs also have large lungs that support breathing during fast running.
Kuda, Strong Animals that are Fast and Agile
Horses are extraordinarily strong animals. Can move quickly and agile over short distances but can run very long and long with a very strong load on its back.
The agile movement of the horse is supported by the enormous structures of the bones, muscles, hooves, lungs and heart.
Horse lungs
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Reporting from equimed.com, the horse’s foreleg is a long leg and is not connected by joints but muscles and ligaments which are directly connected to the spine.
This keeps the horse’s forelegs unrestricted by the joints so that the horse can move swiftly to the right and to the left.
If the front legs allow a lot of movement and make the horse agile. Dilansi from National Center for Biotechnology InformationThe hind legs of the horse provide great power to move and withstand pressure like a spring. This allows the horse to run fast and jump high while carrying heavy loads.
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Function horse limbs which is like a spring is also supported by the presence of the nails. With the hooves, the horse does not get injured even though it takes a lot of weight because of the bearing system in it.
Horses also have very large hearts and lungs to pump blood and breathe in enormous amounts of oxygen. This allows the horse to run fast for long periods of time without running out of breath.
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